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Hi, I am acquiring a used heater only Taylors Paraffin set up. There is no pressurised Stainless tank (which if they can be obtained at all) will be expensive. The thought occurred that I might be able to use a small pressurised plastic tank I have (hand pump). Free is good. I would still buy a shiny pipe and other stuff on display, but no idea of the operating pressure of the device.

Any ideas if this might work?

Tony
 
About 5 pounds to the square inch give or take a bit. Any paraffin-proof pressure tank would be fine, and paraffin is not a specially corrosive liquid. Have a look at garden sprayers, with a built in pump and discharge. Leave an air space above the fuel, it's the squashed air which does the magic. The tank is fine to go down in a damp locker under a cabin berth.
All the above advice is factual from experience.
Someone will be along shortly with dire warnings of leaky flue death etc..
Good heaters, cheers Jerry
 
jerrytug said:
About 5 pounds to the square inch give or take a bit. Any paraffin-proof pressure tank would be fine, and paraffin is not a specially corrosive liquid. Have a look at garden sprayers, with a built in pump and discharge. Leave an air space above the fuel, it's the squashed air which does the magic. The tank is fine to go down in a damp locker under a cabin berth.
All the above advice is factual from experience.
Someone will be along shortly with dire warnings of leaky flue death etc..
Good heaters, cheers Jerry
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Garden sprayers - exactly what I thought....proper flue installation though and flexible pipe for fuel.
 
The problem with garden sprayers is that the seals etc. do not like diesel/kerosene/parrafin and swell and fail.
I used a garden sprayer for a while to pump kerosene up to my Taylors tank, just under the deckhead, but it wasn't long before the seals in the pump gave up the ghost.
 
Steve_N said:
The problem with garden sprayers is that the seals etc. do not like diesel/kerosene/parrafin and swell and fail.
I used a garden sprayer for a while to pump kerosene up to my Taylors tank, just under the deckhead, but it wasn't long before the seals in the pump gave up the ghost.
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Maybe previous posters were referring to those weedkiller/ BURNER type tanks?
Dave
 
Steve_N said:
The problem with garden sprayers is that the seals etc. do not like diesel/kerosene/parrafin and swell and fail.
I used a garden sprayer for a while to pump kerosene up to my Taylors tank, just under the deckhead, but it wasn't long before the seals in the pump gave up the ghost.
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....but compare the price....how many garden sprayers could you buy for the price of one stainless tank.
Maybe back up the seals with some liquid gasket?
 
PlankWalker said:
Dont like the thought of a plastic tank, a bit of a fire hazard! How about adapting a Primus stove or Blow lamp.

Plank
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I know what you mean, but thinking about it, I have on board, in cheap plastic containers, this lot at least:
1l white spirit
5l paraffin
various glue, mastic, etc
1l acetone
5l engine oil
2l gearbox oil
1l 2 stroke oil
5l petrol 10 l diesel
two tubes grease
various pots of paint
500ml olive oil
leaving out the stuff in proper tanks, and the out of date flares, and the propane..

so garden sprayer made of thick plastic.. no problemo :)
 
jerrytug said:
I know what you mean, but thinking about it, I have on board, in cheap plastic containers, this lot at least:
1l white spirit
5l paraffin
various glue, mastic, etc
1l acetone
5l engine oil
2l gearbox oil
1l 2 stroke oil
5l petrol 10 l diesel
two tubes grease
various pots of paint
500ml olive oil
leaving out the stuff in proper tanks, and the out of date flares, and the propane..

so garden sprayer made of thick plastic.. no problemo :)
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PUT out the cigarette and step AWAY from the burney stuff.
 
Pumps in general

I like to insert oil soaked felt into my pumps, especially if they use an 'O' ring. Prevents both wear and corrosion.
 
Dear All

I'm living in Belgium

I'm wondering if any of you might help me

I just bought an 1977 sailboat equiped with a parfine 068 Taylor heater

But the small leather cuff to get pressure in the parafin tank was out of use

I bought a new one, but the problem is that it's a new one for the new 79k model

The seller proposed me to throw my reservoir away and buy a new one $$$$$$$$$$$$$£££££££££££€€€€€€€€€€€

Would one of you know how to replace the ancient cuff, buy a new one or "create" a new one

Thanks for your help

Camille
Brussels
 
Camille

Are you sure 068? I have a 065 model, and the reason I ask, is, as a long shot, all the Dutch Cornish crabbers seem to have the 065 model and you may get some help there. I think when you say leather cuff, you mean the washer on the end of the pump.

I bought a small Taylors cooker that had the same tank fixed permanently to the cooker off EBay - worth watching out for if similar Taylors non heaters but having the same tank (smaller than the 30 cooker tank I have) comes up for sale.
 
Whichever type of tank you end up with you don't need the pump to be part of it, I have both a Taylors cooker and heater with the large Taylors tank, but I've removed the pump from the tank and with some copper pipe fitted a car tyre valve on a panel under the cooker and now use a bike pump to pressurise it, much easier than the original.

John
 
Camilleb61 said:
Dear All

I'm living in Belgium

I'm wondering if any of you might help me

I just bought an 1977 sailboat equiped with a parfine 068 Taylor heater

But the small leather cuff to get pressure in the parafin tank was out of use

I bought a new one, but the problem is that it's a new one for the new 79k model

The seller proposed me to throw my reservoir away and buy a new one $$$$$$$$$$$$$£££££££££££€€€€€€€€€€€

Would one of you know how to replace the ancient cuff, buy a new one or "create" a new one

Thanks for your help

Camille
Brussels
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Why not make a new pump leather? plenty of advice on how to do it on the internet.

For example:

http://www.spiritburner.com/fusion/s....php?tid/4501/
 
This is the tyre valve mounted on the right of the panel with a short length of nylon tube going back to the tank, just connect a bike pump or even a dinghy inflator with the right adaptor to it, much easier than the original which I have removed.

pump.jpg
 
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